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fredmoore
- 04:08am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11432 of 11500)
Dawn ....
How to turn a nightmare-police state into a civil state ???
Throw a Lionel Richie concert!
If they can afford to 'waste' 1-2 million on a cruise
missile to assure destruction, how about a couple mill to
throw a concert and put some joy into the city and the
coalitiion. Imagine all the Baathists you would catch at the
gates.
PS I want tickets to that ... Up for it Dawn?
lchic
- 07:19am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11433 of 11500) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. ....
""Music can help bridge the gap between people in
conflict."
"I remember I was in Germany at a UNESCO dinner and the
next day I was invited to a tea with members of the Israeli,
the Palestinian, the Egyptian and the Chinese delegations and
they said, 'Last night Lionel, we were watching you perform
and we realised something - we don't agree on anything, but
last night we all agreed that we like you. So we thought we'd
have a tea today to just celebrate that we like something
together.'
"There's a point where you have to stop and realise,
'Ladies and gentlemen, we're a 12-headed world body, and we
share one neck. I don't care who wins, we're gonna lose
because we're hacking on our neck.
"People are treating this planet and this society of people
as if we have some other place to go. I just don't get it."
http://new.blackvoices.com/news/bv-news-lionelritchie030314,0,1631472.story?coll=bv-news-black-headlines
lchic
- 07:33am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11434 of 11500) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Rummy "What is significant is that large numbers of human
beings, intelligent, energetic, have been liberated," he
declared at Basra airfield.
"They are out from under the heel of a truly brutal,
vicious regime
lchic
- 07:34am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11435 of 11500) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Rummy has moved to 'STANDARDS' ... well done chum!
lchic
- 07:48am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11436 of 11500) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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SARS - peasant_Chinese
SARS in the Chinese countryside will be harder to contain.
Seemingly a poor person would require '2weeks wages in
their hand' to be admitted to hospital.
Raises the question could the innovative Chinese take the
'hospital' to the individual ....
lchic
- 07:54am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11437 of 11500) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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UN Security Council .... Aussie PM suggests a 3 tier system
of representation ...
Indonesia (for example) would play a bigger role.
lchic
- 07:57am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11438 of 11500) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Nauru
... is a shortage of Nauruans with appropriate skills,
senior bureaucrats frequently do not turn up for work and the
public service is not getting paid.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s843772.htm
jorian319
- 09:18am Apr 30, 2003 EST (#
11439 of 11500)
Lchick -
..baring in mind...
You dirty girl, you!
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